Elysian Fields — Restaurant in Seattle

I purchased a $75 wristband for a music festival in Pioneer Square last night. It included entry into all the local venues with live music including Elysian Fields. I am a 40-something yr old professional female out with 3 other 40-something females (as opposed to drunken-20-somethings out raving) enjoying an evening of live music. I was conservatively dressed and enjoyed 2 glasses of wine with a full dinner earlier and a cocktail at Trinity just before walking to Elysian Fields. When we approach the entry to Elysian, the 20-something door-guy employee singles me out to ask how much I've had to drink. I tell him 3 drinks and he refuses to allow me entry. My 3 friends walk right in and we are briefly separated. I was stunned, insulted, humiliated, and royally pissed after spending so much $$ for the festival wristband. We couldn't figure out for the life of us why he singled me out? Let's see, we were all laughing and enjoying our evening and each other's company. Needless to say, I will never again patronize this establishment. I have spent many fun nights at the sister-establishment on Capital Hill. I will however, make one final trip there to file a complaint to the manager in...

This place has a huge bar and dining area, and is good for a quick drink at the bar before or after a game down the street - that's probably about it though.

First off, the place was nearly empty but the host wouldn't seat us because we only had 3 out of 9 people in attendance. They suggested we wait at the bar. I find that a bit ridiculous of a policy, especially since everyone was 10 minutes out and the place was empty. To make matters worse, we wanted to wait outside as it was a nice day on the patio, but we weren't allowed to do that either because the host knew we would be moving when our party arrived - and therefore we could sit at the bar ONLY while we waited. Again, the patio had plenty of room!!

Secondly, the service is sub par. Server is very nice but it's obvious they cannot keep up for a medium/large party like this. Nobody would allow us to add another table, so we were packed into a 6 person table.

Finally, a majority of the food is not so good. The eggplant sandwhich was really bad - the appetizers were doable but it would come with not enough chips/bread often, leaving lots of food left in the plate.

2/5 would...

I am absolutely disgusted by this place and the attitude we received this evening. We walked in and were told to find our own table...so we sat ourself. We then were very rudely refused service. One waiter came by while we were laughing about a joke amongst the four of us and quickly walked off, we waited about 15 minutes without anyone else coming by the table....in an otherwise very very empty establishment. One member of our party walked up to a waiter requesting service and was told someone would be by the table shortly...another 15 minutes later a different woman came by the table in which she promptly told us we needed to leave and we would not be served, when asked why she responded with "your party needs to leave" without any other explanation. I am so beyond disgusted. In a city that has a high population of amazing local and regional breweries I will honestly say I will gladly take my business elsewhere...and recommend others to do the same. As a visitor to this city I am disgusted. Sorry but your product is not that great that you should be able to get away with refusing service to...